(04-06-2015, 11:05 AM)MostlyAwol Wrote: Please remember that not everyone you are RPing with are long time players who had the time and the means to play the MSQ through the current patch.That's true, certainly! But if the question is "why do people incorporate the events of the MSQ into their RP", which I think is a fair restatement of the original question, I think we have covered that very well
One of the ever-present problems with MMO RP is that not everyone is on the same basis in terms of world and story. There's no GM to give the thumbs-up or thumbs-down or state objectively what your character knows about the world around him or her. We all have our own tactics for dealing with such conflicts, but I think its fair to say that a fairly large swathe of the RP community here accepts the events of the MSQ (in terms of the major events at least) canon after a week or so of the story update, even if they themselves have not actually caught up (I'm included in that number myself).